. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. fall of th T is as lonely as an autumn night, when you hear only the falling e leaves to disturb the hush of darkness. Keats was stableboy, but deserted the stable for the blue sky and the Out- of-Doors, which was where he belonged, for all who are fanniliar with our poets must know that Keats is one of our chief pastoral poets. He loves and sees nature, and, without stammer- ing, tells what he saw. Theories of beauty ,,, may limp, but beauty's self is as sure of foot as daylight, and as fleet of foot as morning. Those who frequent Out-of-Doors may hav
. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. fall of th T is as lonely as an autumn night, when you hear only the falling e leaves to disturb the hush of darkness. Keats was stableboy, but deserted the stable for the blue sky and the Out- of-Doors, which was where he belonged, for all who are fanniliar with our poets must know that Keats is one of our chief pastoral poets. He loves and sees nature, and, without stammer- ing, tells what he saw. Theories of beauty ,,, may limp, but beauty's self is as sure of foot as daylight, and as fleet of foot as morning. Those who frequent Out-of-Doors may have beauty for ashes—an exchange worth mak- ing. And Keats had made this exchange. He had often been "In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless" and had in " sun-burnt mirth " longed "For a beaker full of the warm South, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth," and heard the nightingale a-singing "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Throughthe sad Iwart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid tlie alien corn and wept. Thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side: and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley ; So Keats sings, and so, under the trees, ' with heart set to leaf-fall, I read. And here, while the light sifts down drowsily through the gorgeous leaves, as if loath to leave their glad glow, and leaves fall in leisurely fash- ion, as doing it for their own delight, while birds come, and with head leaning pertly on one side, twitter "Who are you and what are you doing here ?" The leaves rustle. The wind takes occasional gusts and then sits down for rest, as 1 do. The clouds are bonnie, bonnie. When did I learn to 172. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfec
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